> Comparatively I can use our RIS system or use > RIPREP images and rebuild a system in about an hour.
Imaging will always be faster than a native install. If you are looking for the fastest way to deploy an OS, it doesn't get any faster then imaging. I think you also have to weigh your time versus computer time. To me spending 3 hours installing a machine by hand is not acceptable, but having a machine spend 3 hours to install itself is acceptable. It frees me to better spend my time. The computer doesn't get paid by the hour. In my environment it takes about 2 hours to do an install (OS, no patches, Office, Visual Studio 6 + MSDN, Visual Studio 2005 + MSDN, and MatLab, and host of other small applications). Brad Erdman UMIACS ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
